Authors (Click on their names)
Samuel Andreyev ~~ Greg Betts ~~ Binnie Brennan ~~ Allan Briesmaster ~~ John Calabro ~~ Jim Christy ~~ Egidio Coccimiglio ~~ Lili Contento ~~ George Fetherling ~~ Rocco de Giacomo ~~ Carole Giangrande ~~ Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni ~~ Gale Zoë Garnett ~~ Sky Gilbert ~~ Beatriz Hausner ~~ Jason Heroux ~~ Barbara Landry ~~ Brenda Niskala ~~ Gianna Patriarca ~~ Rob Rolfe ~~ David Silverberg ~~ Nicola Vulpe ~~ Michael Wex ~~ Paul Zemokhol
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Beatriz Hausner lives in Toronto. She is a literary translator of some renown, with more th an twenty works of literature published to date. She was President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada, as well as one of the founders of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She is recognized for her tireless advocacy in the of international literature in English translation. She has a previous poetry collection, The wardrobe Mistress, as well as several chapbooks of poetry.
Carole Giangrande is the author of An Ordinary Star and A Forest Burning (novels), Missing Persons (short stories), and two non-fiction books. She worked for many years as a broadcast journalist for CBC Radio. Her essays have been anthologized and her fiction, articles and reviews have appeared in Grain, New Quarterly, Descant, Canadian Forum, Matrix, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and Books in Canada. She now hosts Words to Go, a podcast for writers and readers.
Jason Heroux is the author of two poetry collections, Memoirs of an Alias and Emergency Hallelujah. His work has appeared in chapbooks, anthologies and magazines in Canada, the U.S., Belgium, France, and Italy. He lives in Kingston,
Ontario.
George Fetherling lives in Vancouver, near the Sylvia Hotel, after having been based in Toronto – which he still visits frequently – for many years. He has been publishing poetry since the mid 1960s. He is also a novelist, memoirist, cultural commentator and visual artist. Among his many books are Travels by Night, The Dreams of Ancient Peoples, Madagascar: Poems & Translations, and the forthcoming Walt Whitman’s Secret.
Like the protagonist of Real Gone, Jim Christy grew up in Philadelphia, led a knockabout life in the United States which included carnivals, hoboing, and professional boxing, was involved in radical politics and moved to Canada in 1968. As well as being a writer, he is also a widely exhibited visual artist and has recorded CDs of poetry and music and performed in various countries. Recent books include the novel The Redemption of Anna Dupree (2004) and the nonfiction book Scalawags
(Anvil Press, 2008.
Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, essayist, and teacher originally from Vancouver and Toronto. He is the author of If Language, Haikube, The Others Raisd in Me, as well as eight chapbooks and numerous bits of ephemera. He has edited editions of poetry by W.W. E. Ross, Raymond Knister, and Lawren Harris, and recently finished a critical edition of selected stories, essays, and manifestos by Bertram Brooker, Canada's first
avant-gardist. He is the co-editor of PRECIPICe literary magazine, and curates the Grey Borders Reading Series in St Catharines.
John Calabro’s novella, Bellecour, published in 2005 by Guernica Editions, was named by The Globe and Mail's First Fiction reviewer as one of the top 5 books in that category for 2005. LyricalMyrical Press published, in a chapbook, his collection of short stories, Somewhere Else, in 2006. His short stories and essays have appeared in Italian Canadiana, Strange Peregrination, and More Sweet Lemons. The Cousin is his second novella
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Binnie Brennan lives in Halifax, where she plays the viola with Symphony Nova Scotia, a position she has held since 1989. Music studies took her to Queen’s University and the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. Binnie’s short stories have appeared in Existere, The Adirondack Review, Glossolalia, and All Rights Reserved; and in 2007 her children’s story “A Spider’s Tale” was adapted for the stage featuring Symphony Nova Scotia. Binnie is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers; Harbour View is her first novella.
Egidio Coccimiglio is a film director and screenwriter. He was born in Sault Ste. Marie, the son of an immigrant steelworker. A Film Arts graduate of Ryerson University in Toronto, his independent films have won critical awards in Chicago, Houston, Montreal and Lisbon. Among his optioned screenplays currently in development are Imaginary Grace, a psychological drama, Black Madonna, an Italian immigrant saga with Prospero Pictures (Hotel Rwanda) and Silent City, a futuristic thriller. A Pleasant Vertigo is his first effort at writing prose.
Samuel Andreyev is a poet and composer. From 1997 to 2003 he was the editor of The Expert Press, a Toronto-based small press, focusing on innovative Canadian poetry. His writing has appeared in many small magazines and he has had four chapbooks published, including Weight (2006, BookThug.) He is currently living in Paris.
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Brenda Niskala is a poet, fiction writer and currently the Executive Director for the Saskatchewan Publishers Group. She has two chapbooks, What Butterflies Do at Night (2005, BPrint Editions) and Emma’s Horizon (2000, Hagpapers), one co-authored collection, Open 24 Hours (1997, Broken Jaw Press), and a book of poetry, Ambergris Moon (1983, Thistledown Press). She has taught Creative Writing for the University of Regina Extension Department, and Sage Hill Writing Experience.
Rocco de Giacomo is a widely published poet whose work has most recently been accepted in the literary journals Vallum and The Carolina Quarterly and has appeared in The Antigonish Review and Tower Poetry. His fifth and latest chapbook collection of poems, Catching Dawn’s Breath (LyricalMyrical Press, Toronto) was launched in March of 2008. He has also been a regular contributor of personal essays to Toro Magazine. Rocco is a member of the council for the Art Bar Poetry Series and a member of the bpNichol Coordinating Committee.
Paul Zemokhol was born in Heliopolis, Egypt and has lived in Canada since he was six years old. He was raised in Montreal and then moved to Ontario, finally settling in Toronto where he is a teacher in the alternative school system. He has written two chapbooks: Apocrypha, and No Hope, No Help, No Tea, both from LyricalMyrical Press.
Nicola Vulpe considers poetry and fiction unfortunate habits, which he has supported by working as a computer programmer, technical writer, senior manager in high-tech and university professor. His publications include Blue Tile, which was a finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, Epitaph for a Good Canadian, When the Mongols Return, and Sealed in Struggle, an anthology of Canadian poetry about the Spanish Civil War.
Barbara Landry was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. She grew up in Canada and studied piano and English literature at McGill University. She spent the next 10 years in Mexico where she taught school-aged children music and English. Since returning to Canada she has been teaching ESL in Toronto. She is the author of two chapbooks: Love Letters and Heart-Shaped Rock with Lyricalmyrical Press.
Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni grew up in suburban Philadelphia. She came to Toronto in 1966 to attend St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. She married Alberto Di Giovanni in 1972, and has lived in Toronto ever since, serving as a school board trustee, then a municipal councillor, and a community volunteer. A writer, editor, and occasional speaker on Italian Canadian writing, she edited Italian Canadian Voices: A Literary Anthology, 1946-2004 (Mosaic Press, 2004). Caroline and Alberto raised three children who all still live in Toronto.
Born in London, Ontario, Rob Rolfe lives and works in Toronto. He is a librarian with a special interest in public library service to First Nations, the Black/Caribbean, and Spanish-speaking communities. As a trade unionist, he has been involved in social justice issues for many years. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Crooked Bridge (2005) and The Tracks of the Dead (2007), both from LyricalMyrical Press.
Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre for 18 years. Dr. Gilbert holds a University Research Chair in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies at The School of English and Theatre Studies at Guelph University. His novels, Guilty (1998), St. Stephen’s (1999), I Am Kasper Klotz (2001), and Brother Dumb (2007) were critically acclaimed, and he received the ReLit Award for An English Gentleman, (2004.)
David Silverberg is the artistic director of Toronto Poetry Slam and committee chair at Spoken Word Canada. David has also organized spoken word events and poetry slams at Word on the Street, the Luminato Arts Festival, the Words Aloud Festival in Durham, Ontario, and various public schools in Ontario. He is also a spoken word poet and member of the poetry collective Last Call Poets. His most recent book of poetry is Bags of Wires (LyricalMyrical). www.torontopoetryslam.com
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Michael Wex was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, the last brittle sprout of a Polish rabbinic tree. He spent his early
orthodox Jewish childhood surrounded by a 40% Mormon population. Coming back to Yiddish during the revival of the 1980s after realising that his career as a Medievalist was not going to pay the rent, Wex soon discovered that Yiddish wasn’t
either. He drove cabs, worked in Tim Horton’s, taught English, was a stand-up and finally got a break a couple of years ago. An overnight success at the age of 52, he has a New York Times bestselling
book on the subject entitled Born to Kvetch.
Gianna Patriarca was born in Italy and immigrated in 1960 as a child. She has been a teacher for the Toronto Catholic School System. Her work is extensively
anthologized in many Canadian, American and Italian publications, and is on university course lists in all three countries. It has also been adapted for the stage and for CBC radio drama, and has been part of the documentary Pier 21 with TLN. Besides the popular Italian Women and Other Tragedies, her other
books include Daughters For Sale (1997), Ciao Baby (1999), and What My Arms Can Carry (2003), all from Guernica Editions.
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Lily Contento is a flower designer and writer. Her short stories have appeared in Blood & Aphorisms, and one was adapted into a short film. She has published The Aroma of Holy Work, a collection of poems (Lyricalmyrical Press, 2005). She co-owns Folgie, the Flower Shop, in Toronto, and with Garden Variety has managed to combine her two main passions: flowers and writing.
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Gale Zoë Garnett's poems, short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary quarterlies, magazines and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, where she is also a contributing book reviewer. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Visible Amazement and Transient Dancing, and her work has been translated into French and German. Zoë is also, since age seven, an actor in European and North American theatre and film. Room Tone is her first novella.
Allan Briesmaster is a freelance editor, micro publisher, readings organizer, and literary consultant. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and eight previous collections, including Urban-Pastoral and Galactic Music (Lyricalmyrical Press, 2003-04) and The Other Seasons (Hidden Brook Press, 2005). He lives in Thornhill, ON with his wife Holly, an artist who has collaborated with him on several recent books.